Thursday, July 31, 2014

Daylighting and Energy Performance Lab

Dale Brentrup

Ben Futrell

http://coaa.uncc.edu/academics/school-of-architecture/research/the-daylighting-and-energy-performance-lab

Existed for 26 years.

domain

(subject of study)
Commercial/ Institutional buildings
Large scale owners
Energy performance through daylighting and energy simulation

methodology

(procedures)
lighting analysis (radiance)
energy analysis (some empirical) (MatLab)
thermal model, simulations
user surveys (survey, biometric...)

Analog methods for schematic design:

Heliodon
Artificial Sky

Precise Computational methods for finalized work:

Radiance
Vasari
Ecotect

evaluation

(good from bad)

lighting-distribution for needs (objective), some subjectivity from users,
energy-total consumption (objective)
occupant satisfaction
Questions standards, objective and subjective

definitions

(elements and relationships)
building diagnostic
light
energy
performance
productivity
comfort
sampling
simulate

audience

(Institutes, journals, conference, funding)
Working with NSF funded industry partnership

Component makers

Ingersoll Rand (Trane AC)
Johnson Controls
OSI soft

Owners of buildings

Bank of America

Wells Fargo
Starbucks
City of NY

American Council for Energy Efficient Environment

academic partners
CCNY
Carnegie Mellon (center for building diagnostics)

foundation

(one or two articles)

Optimizing Building Envelope Component Design for Thermal and

School of Architecture

Infrastructure and Environment

Systems Ph.D. Program

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, NC, 28223,

"Optimizing

Optimizing Building Envelope Component Design for Thermal and

School of Architecture

Infrastructure and Environment

Systems Ph.D. Program

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA

Building Envelop Component Design for Thermal and Lighting Performance", Futrell and Ozelkan

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

VIAlab (Visual & Image Analysis)

Dr. Richard Souvenir

Scott Spurlock

http://fcl.uncc.edu/

domain

(subject of study)
Learn about the world from moving images
(cellular, people, heart)
Learning models of video
Observe people
Large scale data analysis

methodology

(procedures)
Computer vision
Machine learning
HCI/Visualization
Biomedical Image analysis

Image analysis/Image processing

Detection
Tracking
Action Recognition
Activity Recognition

Work with domain expert

develop model from images

e.g.
zip code readers
yellow line on football game
red line on people's hand

evaluation

(good from bad)
recognition of accuracy

scientific accuracy
mechanical turk human scoring

definitions

(elements and relationships)
People, molecules, parts
motion
sequences
gaze detection
action recognition

audience

(Institutes, journals, conference, funding)
funding

institutions

cmu
stanford
berkeley

foundation

(one or two articles)
"Learning the Behavior of Users in a Public Space Through Video Tracking"
http://faculty-legacy.arch.tamu.edu/wyan/Papers/WACV05.pdf

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Complex System Institute

Dr. Mirsad Hadzikadic

https://complexity.uncc.edu/

domain

(subject of study)
Non linear subject matter
looking for point of inflection

economic cycles
consciousness
hurricanes
arab spring
cancer

methodology

(procedures)
agent based modeling

simple agent
simple operations

millions of iterations

netlogo free application

evaluation

(good from bad)
look for desirable patterns
relies on the intentions of the people conducting the study
purpose of system (fitness function} can be objective

definitions

(elements and relationships)
complex- results interaction (contrast with complicated)
system
adaptive - change over time
purpose of system (fitness function} can be objective

audience

(Institutes, journals, conference, funding)
funding

dod
nsf (just starting)
economics (skeptics but changing)
NIH
banks

Joournal- Complex Events Systems

SanteFe institute

foundation

(one or two articles)

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Social Atom

by March Buchanan

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Scenario Planning with GIS

Ming-Chun Lee

http://dsrconline.org/

domain

GIS
urban planning
urban/suburban development
sprawl
scenario prediction/planning

methodology

Proposals for Urban Development:

Information organized into layers
data entry/retrieval

Software Packages

INDEX in association with Excel
SSIM
Community Vis
Envision Tomorrow
CityEngine
Sketchup
Google Maps/StreetView

evaluation

Proximity and density are often given subjective values
Community's intention vs. outcome
Use of data models to monitor progress towards performance goals
Real time visualization of change

definitions

GIS is a database for geographically referenced information
Building Types
Spatial Data
Overall Planning
Rule-based building algorithms
Geographic attributes:

Crime
Education
Public Health
Ecology
Soil Types
Zoning

audience

ESRI
US Department of Housing and Urban Design
City Planners
Urban Designers

foundation

(one or two articles)

Saturday, July 26, 2014

E/Ye

Jefferson Ellinger
26 Aug2014

domain

Composite design, environmental friendly design, air conditioning and temperature control, material science

methodology

simulation, prototyping, and making real structure
computational method

evaluation

quality of air inside the building
measure the amount of pollution
material efficiency

definitions

composite
eco-friendly
digital fabrication
surface texture
planting
HVAC system

audience

Windsor Fiberglass
Architects/Students
Greg Lynn
Material Scientists

foundation

(one or two articles)

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Title

Celine Latulipe

domain

Human-Computer Interaction

methodology

flipped-classroom teaching methods
rapid prototyping
paper prototyping
wizard-of-oz demos

evaluation

innovative, new ways of thinking must be used in order for a good result to be produced.
avoid repetition, rapid prototyping leads to new discoveries which are more valuable than re-hashing old methods

definitions

Sketching/Storyboarding: Sketching and storyboarding are design tasks that have many proponents in HCI, and this type of activity can be seen as an early form of prototyping.

Blank Model Prototyping: This is the use of clay or other physical materials to model devices. This helps students to focus on form factor.

Digital Prototyping: This is the use of digital tools to create interactive prototypes that users can actually play with on a desktop or mobile device. Similar to digital wireframes, but interactive.

audience

CHI
SIGSCE
SIGCHI
UIST

foundation

NSF

Title

Khai Truong

domain

People usage of the space
Space function,
User studies,
Human activity detection,
Using sound for location tracking

methodology

identify the problem, improve the procedure, go back to to see the problem

evaluation

User evaluation
Test system in different environment

definitions

Pervasive computing
Context-aware
Human computer interaction
Ubiquitous Computing

audience

Institute:

CSCW
International conference on ubiquitous computing
UIST
CHI

foundation

(one or two articles)